About the Authors

Viktor Yarotskyy

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Feliciano Protasi

Affiliation Center for Research on Ageing & Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Università Gabriele d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy

Robert T. Dirksen

robert_dirksen@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VY FP RTD. Performed the experiments: VY. Analyzed the data: VY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP RTD. Wrote the manuscript: VY FP RTD.